... operations using ionized radiation on human subjects. '( 7 ) The CIA's statement further claimed that if such experiments were conducted, they were done so by the CIA contractors, and that CIA had no interest in them. What was significant, however, elsewhere in that statement was the CIA's own admission that based on its records of its MKULTRA program, it might have conducted such experiments. The MKULTRA program was a group of projects 'concerned with research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior. '( 8 ) (emphasis added) One of the CIA's documents clearly states that 'additional avenues to control the human ...

... a rich bi-chemist. Stark spoke of having studied biochemistry at various Ivy League universities and of having quit a top secret post at the Department of Defense during the Kennedy administration because the work 'disgusted' him. One scientist who knew Stark says he claimed to have been attached to the CIA 'mind control' project - later revealed as MKULTRA.(1 ) The Brotherhood of Eternal Love Stark had world-wide business interests in pharmaceuticals. Behind his various 'legit' fronts, by 1969 he had become one of the world's leading suppliers of LSD, produced at his illicit labs in Europe. Stark also plugged himself into the counter-culture. In America he hooked up ...

... of psychic research and its possible implications for intelligence and warfare. The CIA had investigated the use of psi for intelligence gathering purposes in early fifties, but rather in the way the police departments sometimes seek assistance from psychics to solve a crime.(1 ) In the course of their famous mind control projects code named ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD and MKULTRA, the CIA allocated a small portion of the budget to study the use of mediums in seeking intelligence from the dead, and called for a scientific study of the use of psychics for intelligence work.(2 ) In early sixties, the US Air Force commissioned the American Institute for Research [AIR] to conduct a feasibility study ...

... with the erasure of memory, hypnotic resistance to torture, truth serums, post- hypnotic suggestion, rapid induction of hypnosis, electronic stimulation of the brain, non-ionizing radiation, and a host of even more disturbing technologies. Some of the projects exploring these areas were ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, PANDORA, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH and the infamous MKULTRA. The CIA was not the only government agency involved in this research. (1 ) Indeed, many branches of our government took part in these studies -- including NASA, the Atomic Energy Commission, as well as all branches of the Defence Department. Although misleading (and occasionally perjured) testimony before Congress indicated that the CIA's ...